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Belfast body builder invites Arnie to visit

A BELFAST body builder who discovered Arnold Schwarzenegger more than 30 years ago wants the next Stormont assembly to invite the film star turned politician back on a return visit.

Ivan Dunbar first brought Schwarzenegger to Belfast as a 19-year-old aspiring body builder, giving him a bed in his home and cooking him an Ulster fry.

Now that Schwarzenegger is governor-elect of California, Dunbar wants Northern Ireland’s politicians to extend a formal invitation to the star of Terminator to revisit the north after the assembly elections on November 26.

Dunbar, the international chairman of the National Amateur Body Builders Association (NABBA), said: “Schwarzenegger is one of the biggest movie stars in the world at the moment, and aside from the great buzz that alone would create if he visited Northern Ireland, he is also about to take up a very important political office in California. It would be a real